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Laundry Math

So, I am constantly faced with a mountain of clothes, and I can never figure out why. Today, I sat down and did the math.

Well, 2 pairs of clothes per person (pjs, and day clothes) is 12 outfits per day, plus extras for spills, etc, so probably closer to 15 per day, which is 105 outfits per week. Then add towels (1 each every second day), so that is 18 towels per week. Then add sheets, so that is 5 sets per week. Then dish cloths, probably 5-10 per week. Now, we can’t forget winter coats, snow pants, mittens toques. Then socks too.

This probably explains why it never ends!

My challenge right now is to find logical solutions for doing all of it while working full time and getting it put away. I have tried several methods. Currently, I am in the “leave it on the couch” method.

So far, I have discovered that hanging shirts seems to be easiest for my oldest to help with and makes them look nice and ironed. I also have their clothes separated by person. It just seems to stop there. I end up with baskets and baskets and baskets of laundry in my living room.

I would love some tips if anyone has any!

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According to the FlyLady “a load a day will keep Mount Washmore away”. That doesn’t seem to hold true for me though! I do about two loads a day and fold laundry on the kitchen table since the washer and dryer are in the kitchen. The house rule is that everyone has to put his/her laundry away so that we can sit down and eat.

I know the feeling. 🙂
I dry as much as possible on clothes racks (other than shirts – which I put straight onto a hanger – and more often than not right into the closet, un-ironed, from there).
I find it so much easier to sort things as I take them off the rack. I sort it all straight into piles and then walk those up and into the appropriate drawer.
If it goes into the dryer I try to employ the same method of folding and sorting as I take it out, because if it gets thrown into a basket instead it will probably stay there until we’ve completely run out of clean clothes and I’m desperate.